Chapter 68: Mess
The Dragon Midnight Banquet turned into a big mess.
The assassin is a waste concubine in the cold palace, and Empress Shangguan is to blame, so she hurriedly investigates thoroughly. The emperor was so angry that he even passed the noble concubine Tian over and reprimanded her.
Yun Dan was fortunate to be fine, the three fingers of her left hand were almost cut off, and the imperial doctor gave her a bone, wrapped in a thick bandage to recuperate, saying that it would be fine, but it would leave a scar. Yun Dan is already very happy with such a result, it doesn't hurt to have a scar on his hand, as long as his face is fine.
The emperor gave the pearl and jade brocade to appease Yun Dan, but he told her very helplessly that Chu Huaxin was the daughter of General Chu, the governor of Huguang, and even if he assassinated the imperial concubine and punished the three clans according to the law, he could not punish the Chu family. Chu Huaxin is dead, and you are not too seriously injured, so let this matter be over.
Yun Dan is a Tubo royal family, so he naturally understands the royal dispute, and his handling of Tuoba Hong is indistinguishable. What could she do but endure this?
And about five or six days later, the queen's side found out the eyebrows.
After the female official of the cold palace confessed, a eunuch surnamed Chen, who was responsible for guarding the abolished concubine, once served Chu Huaxin, who was a contour, and later the Chu family was convicted and demoted, and the palace people around him were all punished into the court. Chen Neijian was camping in the palace, and after leaving the court, he was assigned to a place like the Cold Palace, which had no oil and water.
Chen Neijian remembered the old love and took great care of the old master, this time Chu Huaxin was helped by him to escape from the cold palace, and got a palace maid's clothes and accessories to mix into the Mingtai night banquet.
As for why Chu Huaxin had to pay for his life to assassinate a Yun Zhaorong who had never met before?
This is a complete misunderstanding.
The purpose of the Chu family's escape from the cold palace was not Yun Zhaorong at all, but her own sister, the noble concubine Chu Huasheng.
After Chu Huaxin escaped from the cold palace, the inner prisoner surnamed Chen knew that his sin was unforgivable, and he committed suicide a long time ago. Empress Shangguan had no way to start investigating the case, so she had to turn the cold palace upside down, and turned out a thick pile of blood books in the house where Chu Huaxin lived, as well as enshrined Buddha statues and the like-
Chu Huaxin has been alive all these years, and every day he resents his sister for framing her in the cold palace in order to replace her position. There was no pen and ink in the cold palace, she was so hateful that she pricked her fingers and wrote countless curses to scold Chu Huasheng, and prayed in front of the Buddha statue every day, hoping to get a chance to take revenge and escape and kill Chu Huasheng.
Chu Huaxin finally waited for the opportunity, just half a year ago, the internal supervisor surnamed Chen was assigned from the court to the cold palace errand. They had been planning for a long time, and it took a lot of effort to steal the palace maid's clothes, and they finally succeeded in one fell swoop.
As for why Chu Huaxin killed Yun Zhaorong by mistake in the end?
It's just because Yun Dan, who was singing and dancing on the high platform at that time, wore a blue jade hairpin inlaid with gold beads on his hair bun. This hairpin is a treasure of the Chu family that is passed down from women to men, Chu Huaxin was favored by her parents when she was young, and her aunt passed this thing to her very early, and later this thing entered the palace with her. And after she was convicted, her father made the decision and transferred this thing to her concubine Chu Huashang.
Chu Huaxin was too familiar with this thing, so he thought that the person on the stage was Chu Huasheng.
At that time, Chu Huaxin spent four years in the cold palace and lived a hellish life, no longer a ghost, her eyes were tortured by a female official two years ago and almost crippled, and she could only vaguely see the light. She could recognize the hairpin that she had worn for more than ten years, but she could no longer see the face of the gorgeous dress.
So she didn't hesitate to raise her knife and stab the woman wearing the hairpin.
Empress Shangguan thought that the matter had been investigated very clearly. On May 15, she issued a decree to the Sixth Palace that the assassination of Yun Zhaorong was the work of the Chu family of the Cold Palace, and had nothing to do with others. Because of the meritorious work of the Chu family, the emperor had already spoken, and Chu Huaxin would not implicate his family after his death.
That's it. The concubines were all glad that they were not involved, but after carefully pondering what the queen found out, many people began to drum in their hearts-
This strange assassination is everywhere, is it really "the abolition of the Chu family concubine did it alone, and she has nothing to do with others"?
That terrible hairpin is the heirloom of the Chu family!
Why did Chu Huashang give such a valuable and extraordinary thing as a gift between sisters to a foreign princess?
If Yun Dan hadn't worn this hairpin, Chu Huaxin wouldn't have mistaken her!
Rumors spread quickly. It is nothing more than that the noble concubine Tian designed to lure her own sister out of the cold palace to assassinate, but she had arranged everything before and gave the hairpin to Yun Zhaorong to wear, so as to avoid assassination and get rid of the favored Yun Zhaorong.
The previous harmony between Concubine Tian and Yun Zhaorong's sisters seemed to others to be an indispensable foreshadowing for this good show. When everyone thinks of what Tian Guifei has done over the years, as long as anyone who knows knows it, Tian Guifei is a scheming and calculating woman. She pretended to call each other sisters with Yun Zhaorong, but the purpose was to kill her, which couldn't be more reasonable.
In the face of the crowd, Chu Huashang couldn't tell the difference, but the more he depicted it, the darker it became. A few days later, the emperor ordered the harem concubines to "be cautious in their words and deeds", and also caught a few palace maids with broken mouths to kill chickens and monkeys, and this rumor slowly subsided.
Although Tuoba Hong gave Chu Huashang face, he was not without doubts in his heart. It's just that because Chu Dakai is still on the battlefield of Xia Kingdom, and his eldest daughter died, he can't humiliate Chu Huashang anymore. Even if this matter was really Chu Huasheng's doing, Tuoba Hong wanted to suppress it.
He and the queen thought exactly the same. The queen's decree cleared up the involvement of others, also for the sake of the overall situation.
When the harem was in turmoil, Tuoba Hong took pity on the injured Yun Dan and went to invite Yuelou to visit her for several days. Seeing Yun Dan's hands of flesh open and unbearable, he couldn't help but be angry with Chu Huasheng.
Chu Huashang gradually fell out of favor.
She went to Yueyue Tower several times and wanted to come to the door to explain, but Yun Dan turned her away. She was so angry that she smashed a box of jewels and jade in Xianfu Palace, angrily scolded her for being framed, and scolded Yun Dan for being stupid and ignorant of what to do, so easily that people were coaxed into thinking that she was the real murderer who harmed her.
At that time, Lin Yuan was busy in the Shanggong Bureau for a long time. She made the decision to reward the mountain treasures offered by the Tibetan envoys to Li Xiaoyuan and others who had just entered the palace, and got the news that the noble concubines of Xianfu Palace had smashed a lot of household goods.
Aunt Han, who was accompanying her on the side, sneered and said This noble concubine is smart, thinking that she has fallen in love with the Yundan princess, but she has ended up with a disgraced daughter. Lin Yuan played with a warm jade pendant in his hand, raised his eyebrows and smiled: "It's a powerful master, one blow assassination, almost ruined Yun Zhaorong's face, and suppressed the Chu clan afterwards." ”
"Niangniang, you also think, it's really not the noble concubine Tian's doing?" Aunt Han asked anxiously.
"I can't say for sure." Lin Yuan smiled lightly: "Chu Huashang has a lot of ghost ideas. Anyway, Yun Zhaorong was injured, and the palace went to see her today. ”
So he instructed the palace people to bring a lot of good medicine to the Lintoe Palace. On this day, the queen mother was sick, and the emperor went to Changle Palace to serve the decoction, but did not come to Lintoe Palace.
Perhaps because of Chu Huashang's incident, Yun Dan didn't want to see the harem concubines since she was injured, and many people came to visit her, but she ignored them. At this time, there was no one in the Lintoe Palace, as soon as Lin Yuanfu entered the hall, he only saw the two women standing in front of the door hurriedly stepping forward to ask for peace, and when one of them went down, his legs and feet trembled, and he didn't even dare to raise his head.
These two people are Li Fangyi and Hua Xiaoyi, who live in the side hall of Lintoe Palace. Yun Dan is the main seat of Lintoe Palace, Li Fangyi was punished by Yun Dan to kneel because she was late to ask for peace, and after the injury was a little better, she came to ask for peace every day, for fear of being pinched again. She didn't dare to slander Yun Dan in front of the emperor to fight for her own survival, she knew very well that the emperor's love for Yun Dan's princess was not something she could shake.
Hua Xiaoyi also knew that Yundan's status was noble, in order not to suffer immediate losses, she used to dare to be presumptuous with Concubine Jing, but now she didn't dare to dominate in the Lintoe Palace.
Lin Yuan glanced at them and said left and right: "I heard that Li Fangyi's leg is better, but the palace still hurts a lot. instructed the internal hospital to give Li Fangyi good medicine, but she couldn't let her fall into any problems. ”
He Jiuyang was now afraid of Lin Yuan, and he also shrank his courage after being tortured by Yun Dan. She hurriedly thanked Lin Yuan for her grace, but Lin Yuan didn't look at her, and only asked her to go back to her own dormitory to raise her, and she didn't have to come to invite Yuelou to ask Yun Dan for peace every day.
The inner hall of the Invitation Moon Building was quite lively, and the babbling of the drama came out, and Yun Dan was bored in his recuperation, and the concubines were not allowed to visit, but he often invited the singers in the pear garden of the Qin Palace to perform. When she saw Lin Yuan coming, she hurriedly got up to greet her.
"Yun Zhaorong likes Huangmei Opera?" Lin Yuan pointed to a few art girls in front of him: "This is very good, the emperor felt that you didn't understand the rules, you can watch more of these operas of the Central Plains, it is no worse than reading historical records, and you can also learn a lot of etiquette." Hmm, I heard that many sisters care about Zhaorong and want to come to visit, but why is there no one today? ”
Lin Yuan spoke very politely, but Yun Dan had been married for several months, and he was no stranger to the vitriol and scheming of the women of the Qin Palace. She pursed her lips and smiled, instructed someone to show Lin Yuan a seat, and said: "The concubines don't want to see them - only Zhaoyi Niangniang, the concubines are very in awe and respect you, you come over and invite the moon tower to shine." ”
"It seems that the rumors are true." Lin Yuan looked at her indifferently: "Yun Zhaorong was frightened by Concubine Tian. ”
Yun Dan sneered, noncommittal.
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